Everyone experiences conflict and, if not dealt with in a healthy way, it can be devastating to all parties affected.
Did you know that conflicts between employees in the workplace:
• Result in over 65% of performance problems
• Cause up to 90% of involuntary departures
• Result in a lack of productivity and increased time off
Find out how to mediate in your workplace and improve your business.
Join a panel of experienced local mediators and Kari D. Boyle, Executive Director of Mediate BC in a one-hour panel followed by a half-hour interactive workshop using real-life examples to describe how mediation works.
PANELISTS
Kari D. Boyle is the Executive Director of Mediate BC Society and enjoys using her legal, mediation and management experience to assist the Society to work collaboratively to improve BC citizens’ access to viable and affordable conflict resolution options. Previously, she practiced corporate commercial litigation in Vancouver for 14 years, worked inhouse for 6 years specializing in legal services management and provided support to the Civil Justice Reform Working Group including the initiative to create a new set of Supreme Court Civil Rules in British Columbia. She has been a member of Mediate BC’s Civil Roster since 2003 and has been invited to present on a wide variety of topics relating to mediation and civil justice reform.
Bob Groves is a lawyer with over two decades of experience as an advocate in all the courts of British Columbia, and in the Supreme Court of Canada. He has acted for countless employers and employees in disputes arising in the employment arena, for executors and beneficiaries where the distribution of an estate is at stake, and in construction cases when owners and builders are fighting about payment for the work that has been done. Bob is an accredited mediator and a chartered arbitrator. He also teaches courses in business law and employment relations to students enrolled in the School of Business at Okanagan College.
Ronald J. Smith, QC is a lawyer, and mediator based in Kelowna, British Columbia. He practices in the areas of family law and mediation. Ron attended law school at the University of British Columbia and has practiced in B.C. since 1974. Ron began practicing mediation in 1985 - he has conducted hundreds of mediations in most areas of law since that time.
Tickets are $25 each for members; $30 for future members, and include the full session plus a continental breakfast which begins at 8:00 a.m. Seating is limited; register early. Ticket sales close at noon on Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014.
Thank you to our Chamber Week Sponsors
